The Senate Public Accounts Committee, on Thursday, raised a serious objection to the productivity allowance being paid to staff of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control amounting to N324m without any approval from the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, IgbereTV reports.
The SPAC at its sitting presided over by the acting Chairman of the committee, Senator Suleiman Hadeija, hinged its objection to the alleged illegal increment of NAFDAC staff allowance in the 2016 report of the Auditor-General for the Federation.
The productivity allowance was paid with a voucher dated April 13, 2015 without approval from the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, which is the legitimate body to approve such an allowance.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, admitted that the approval had not been granted by the NSIWC, but that work was still ongoing on the approval.
She said the productivity allowance predated her.
“The continuation of it is what I met; we are waiting for the salaries and wages commission to regularise it; our staff members are poorly paid and I have said it at different forums,” the DG stated.
